Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Street clerks and runners, several loafers, a handful of worshipers and some Roman Catholic nuns dropped in at odd times last week on Manhattan's old Trinity Church to inspect a large cabinet in the nave. They beheld, behind glass, an illuminated statuet of Jesus Christ, praying in a Garden of Gethsemane in which every leaf and blade of grass was meticulously modeled and painted. Every four and one-half minutes the lights slowly dimmed and the haloed plaster head of Jesus raised slowly heavenward. This was "the first animated diorama ever made of a religious subject," lent...
...with a load of passengers in a Douglas DC-3, discovered in time's nick that his controls were jammed. Cutting his motors for an immediate investigation, he discovered that his radio microphone had fallen off its hook by the seat into the V-shaped well in the wall between the movable control column and the fixed structural parts of the cockpit. Grim-faced at his narrow escape from tragedy, the pilot told his employers about it. They at once passed the word to other lines using DC-3's. United Air Lines, whose February crash into...
...ending the week at levels abreast of 1931. In its unyielding attitude toward Labor, U. S. Steel has always been an inspiration to anti-union executives, not only in the rest of the steel industry but in all industry, and its capitulation would give pause to many another management. Wall Street did not relish unionism any more than it had before but it realized that there might be more profits in industrial peace than in industrial war-at least until the next election...
...pound class--R. C. Downs '40 defeated J. A. Day '37 by a technical knockout in the second round. Time -- 1 minute, 55 seconds. B. F. Gill '40 defeated N. A. Polansky '40 by decision. R. F. Schlafly '40 defeated E. M. Wall '40 by a technical knockout in the third round. Time--35 seconds. F. B. Latady '40 defeated E. H. Ahrens '37 by decision in an extra round...
...speech at the high school in Elyria, Ohio. Young Harry's penmanship got him his first job as a bookkeeper. By the late 18903 he was in business for himself, making bicycles. At 30 he had had enough of Elyria, sold out, headed for the cold shadows of Wall Street to begin his real career. In 1906 he took a hand in splicing a group of Midwest and Southern utilities into American Gas & Electric Co., six years later formed a higher and bigger holding company. Central States Electric, which eventually got working control of Great North American Co. (TIME...